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Ditto......Graham said:Joe Ellis opp the old library. Bought my first proper fishing rod and my first gun from there. Spent hours perusing the goods through his window.
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Ditto......Graham said:Joe Ellis opp the old library. Bought my first proper fishing rod and my first gun from there. Spent hours perusing the goods through his window.
Theres the SPAR shop at the bottom of queensville bridge!Andreas Rex said:Gone but sadly missed: every single video shop in the entire town. When I were a lad there was Videoworld on the end of Salter Street, the place behind the offy at the town end of the Wolverhampton Rd (just next to where the Laura Ashley shop is now), pretty much every other offy/shop in the sweet Borough of Stafford. Now I can't think of anywhere at all to go and rent a DVD. You can get them from a library, but not in the evening. Fair enough there's Lovefilm and t'internet, but if you just decided off-the-cuff to watch a film that you don't have to download/stream/order in advance/borrow off a mate/watch whatever rubbish is on the telly, you're pretty much screwed. Shame.
that was run by my great grandad (now sadly passed away) he also owned the pub on the corner that is now a greek restaurant!xstaffordlass said:Do any of you remember the old betting shop in Castle St and the old cobblers on the corner of Castle St and Railway St? Oh and Hall and Lloyds Auction house in South St, Think i managed to kit out most of my house with stuff bought from there.
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Greek Restaurant closed a bit ago duck.harryw said:that was run by my great grandad (now sadly passed away) he also owned the pub on the corner that is now a greek restaurant!xstaffordlass said:Do any of you remember the old betting shop in Castle St and the old cobblers on the corner of Castle St and Railway St? Oh and Hall and Lloyds Auction house in South St, Think i managed to kit out most of my house with stuff bought from there.
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I always think of how market square used to be whenever I cross it. Much more convenient having the toilets and bus stops in the centre of town.Floss67 said:What do you remember? I vaguely remember the Market square with flower beds and a bus stop and was there toilets underground?
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Great pub Frank Thorley and his wife , she made marvelous chicken rolls!stoofer34 said:old cobblers on the corner of Castle St and Railway St
Mr Burrows!
Take any bag in there and he could copy it.
Anyone remember the New Inn? Rowing boat hire?
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That jewellers was called Manns. I had my ears pierced there too! New years Eve 1974. It was my 11th birthday,we'd been the SGI for my last eye test there and me n dad went into Stafford to get me a pair of trainers,I'd already asked if I could have me ears done,but didn't know when. We walked in Manns and dad asked if they did piercing,I think they heard my screams at bottom end of town. Didn't use a gun in them days,you got a needle pushed thru.staffordjas said:I always think of how market square used to be whenever I cross it. Much more convenient having the toilets and bus stops in the centre of town.Floss67 said:What do you remember? I vaguely remember the Market square with flower beds and a bus stop and was there toilets underground?
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Then you also had the bustling St Johns Market just a few yards away from market square up the arcade .I remember inside that arcade,just before you got to the market doors, there was a jewellers shop on the left. They used to do ear-piercing inside the jewellers,infull of view of everyone and a group of us went from work one lunchtime. My memory of that jewellers was me being passed out on the floor awaiting my turn !
Greatly missed.
The little second-hand bookshop where the disco shop is now, opposite the prison. Every Saturday morning you would find a gem in there. After a while he would know what you liked and you would be pointed at some box on the floor as you came in - never failed. I saw Bob Picken, the proprietor, in the town only last year and he still looks exactly the same.
When I was at college I went here all the time, the guy was a legend. 4 square meter shop yet he knew where anything that would interest you would be, I got loads from him. Sadly missed
He really does look exactly the same, even though we only ever saw him from the neck up behind his barricade. I can still hear the rattle of his fan heater and remember his never-emptying vacuum flask. I bought a book on the principles of flight that turned out to be his from his days in the Fleet Air Arm - I promised him that he can have it back should he need it again. He finally packed it in, having survived the fire, when they insisted that he had a yearly lease instead of the rolling monthly one that he'd had for years, so he retracted to doing just the book fairs.
Hi,
This is just a message to let people know that sadly my uncle, Bob Picken, passed away on 2nd December. If anyone is interested in paying their respects, please let me know and I'll pass you the details of the funeral.
He will be greatly missed.
When I bought this -
- from him, he told me "You wouldn't have that if I didn't have one of my own!"